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index 3ccef2f2b3..52c353e674 100644
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+++ b/Documentation/git-rev-parse.txt
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ OPTIONS
--parseopt::
Use 'git-rev-parse' in option parsing mode (see PARSEOPT section below).
---keep-dash-dash::
+--keep-dashdash::
Only meaningful in `--parseopt` mode. Tells the option parser to echo
out the first `--` met instead of skipping it.
@@ -84,6 +84,11 @@ OPTIONS
unfortunately named tag "master"), and show them as full
refnames (e.g. "refs/heads/master").
+--abbrev-ref[={strict|loose}]::
+ A non-ambiguous short name of the objects name.
+ The option core.warnAmbiguousRefs is used to select the strict
+ abbreviation mode.
+
--all::
Show all refs found in `$GIT_DIR/refs`.
@@ -299,18 +304,18 @@ previous section means the set of commits reachable from that
commit, following the commit ancestry chain.
To exclude commits reachable from a commit, a prefix `{caret}`
-notation is used. E.g. "`{caret}r1 r2`" means commits reachable
+notation is used. E.g. `{caret}r1 r2` means commits reachable
from `r2` but exclude the ones reachable from `r1`.
This set operation appears so often that there is a shorthand
for it. When you have two commits `r1` and `r2` (named according
to the syntax explained in SPECIFYING REVISIONS above), you can ask
for commits that are reachable from r2 excluding those that are reachable
-from r1 by "`{caret}r1 r2`" and it can be written as "`r1..r2`".
+from r1 by `{caret}r1 r2` and it can be written as `r1..r2`.
-A similar notation "`r1\...r2`" is called symmetric difference
+A similar notation `r1\...r2` is called symmetric difference
of `r1` and `r2` and is defined as
-"`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`".
+`r1 r2 --not $(git merge-base --all r1 r2)`.
It is the set of commits that are reachable from either one of
`r1` or `r2` but not from both.